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The platform connects buyers and sellers, covering the entire lifecycle of a PV system — from initial information through trading to document management. With growing international business, the old platform reached its limits.",[17,359,360],{},"The task was clear: a complete relaunch of milkthesun.com with a fundamental visual overhaul and expanded infrastructure, information provision, and automated data exchange capabilities — all in 5 languages for European markets.",[12,362,26],{"id":25},[17,364,365],{},"We planned, conceptualised, and developed a comprehensive online portal on the Drupal CMS:",[31,367,368,374,380,386,392,398],{},[34,369,370,373],{},[37,371,372],{},"Frontend & Content Management:"," Drupal-based with custom module development",[34,375,376,379],{},[37,377,378],{},"Backend API:"," Symfony PHP framework for all business processes",[34,381,382,385],{},[37,383,384],{},"Multilingual Architecture:"," Full support for 5 European languages",[34,387,388,391],{},[37,389,390],{},"User Management:"," Personalised cockpit areas for buyers and sellers",[34,393,394,397],{},[37,395,396],{},"Hosting Infrastructure:"," Separate test and staging instances for independent country-specific releases",[34,399,400,403],{},[37,401,402],{},"SEO & Content Marketing:"," Country-specific WordPress blogs in all 5 languages",[12,405,68],{"id":67},[17,407,408],{},"The architecture combines Drupal for frontend and content management with a robust Symfony backend API. 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The platform connects buyers and sellers of existing PV installations across Germany and Europe, facilitating the secondary market for renewable energy infrastructure.","Complete relaunch of Europe's leading online marketplace for photovoltaic systems — multilingual Drupal portal with Symfony backend API in 5 languages.","\u002Fimages\u002Fcases\u002Fmilk-the-sun-hero.webp","Energy & Sustainability","gallery-heavy",{},3,"\u002Fen\u002Fcase-studies\u002Fmilk-the-sun",[434,435,436,437],"Full platform relaunch with multilingual support across 5 languages","Modern Drupal + Symfony architecture enabling complex marketplace functionality","Improved user experience driving higher engagement from European solar investors","Scalable API layer supporting integration with external data sources and valuation tools",[439],"Milk the Sun marketplace — multilingual PV system trading platform with system search, listing management, personalised seller and buyer dashboards, and a comprehensive photovoltaics information hub",[427,441],"\u002Fimages\u002Fcases\u002Fmilk-the-sun.webp",{"title":350,"description":426},[90,444,335],"Drupal Website","en\u002Fcase-studies\u002Fmilk-the-sun",[447,448,338,340,123,121,449],"Drupal","Symfony","WordPress",{},[],"2015","gz7TqTQz3QlliNNPivuWMIDDaPSXdGiJSCCAuSKCUyI",{"id":455,"title":456,"award":6,"awardLogo":7,"body":457,"cardFocus":7,"cardImage":526,"categories":527,"client":528,"clientDescription":529,"dark":93,"description":530,"extension":95,"featured":96,"heroExcludeFromGallery":93,"heroFocus":7,"heroImage":531,"imageCredits":7,"industry":532,"layout":100,"meta":533,"navigation":96,"order":534,"path":535,"results":536,"screenshotCaptions":542,"screenshots":545,"screenshotsLayout":111,"sector":332,"seo":547,"services":548,"stem":549,"technologies":550,"testimonial":555,"videos":556,"year":557,"__hash__":558},"cases_en\u002Fen\u002Fcase-studies\u002Fregionalfenster.md","Regionalfenster: E-Paper Service for Libraries",{"type":9,"value":458,"toc":521},[459,461,464,467,470,472,475,513,515,518],[12,460,15],{"id":14},[17,462,463],{},"Around 1,200 daily newspapers are published as e-papers in Germany — and every regional legal deposit library is legally required to collect, provide access to and archive the titles from its region. Previously, publishers had to submit their e-paper editions separately to each regional library — significant logistical overhead for all parties involved.",[17,465,466],{},"The German National Library and the Working Group of Regional Libraries (AG RB) sought a better way: a technical infrastructure combining central archiving at the DNB with legally sound, region-specific read access for each library.",[17,468,469],{},"Additional requirements: maximum availability (downtime unacceptable), full BITV 90+ accessibility compliance, and granular access management — which title, for which library, in which time period, with how many simultaneous sessions.",[12,471,68],{"id":67},[17,473,474],{},"Over 14 months we developed a high-availability Java EE web application meeting all requirements:",[31,476,477,483,489,495,501,507],{},[34,478,479,482],{},[37,480,481],{},"Single submission:"," Publishers deliver only to the DNB — no separate submissions to individual regional libraries",[34,484,485,488],{},[37,486,487],{},"Region-specific access:"," Each library sees and opens only the titles for which it has an agreement with the publisher",[34,490,491,494],{},[37,492,493],{},"Granular permission management:"," Title activation, access period and maximum parallel sessions managed centrally",[34,496,497,500],{},[37,498,499],{},"Redundant server architecture:"," No single point of failure — uninterrupted continuous operation",[34,502,503,506],{},[37,504,505],{},"BITV 90+ accessibility:"," All content and functions fully accessible to users with disabilities",[34,508,509,512],{},[37,510,511],{},"Responsive design:"," Usable on all devices in library reading rooms",[12,514,78],{"id":77},[17,516,517],{},"Since going live in early 2018, the Service Regionale Bereitstellung has run continuously in production. 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In collaboration with the Working Group of Regional Libraries (AG RB), it has operated the Service Regionale Bereitstellung since 2018 — an infrastructure enabling regional legal deposit libraries to fulfil their statutory e-paper collection mandate centrally and efficiently. 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